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  • 01-06-2001 2:26pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭


    IrelandOffline need a banner ad. Simple.

    You can incorporate:

    1. Our logo - as seen on the web site... (in fact we'd prefer that all banners carry the logo, naturally).
    2. Any other graphics you see on our web site
    3. Any non-copyright graphics from the web (your own creations preferably)

    I'd just ask that if you're going to mention a web address on the banner, make sure you not put any other web address on the banner besides www.irelandoffline.com (naturally)...

    well- c'mon... show us yer l33t graphics sk|llz tongue.gif

    No prizes... well- once we have a page on the site with the banners on it, you'll be credited there of course.

    Here's my own (quick) effort:

    BannerAd1.gif

    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    By the way... please use one of the following dimensions...

    Banners: 468 x 60 pixels (standard)
    Half-size banners: 234 x 60 pixels
    Buttons: 88 x 31 pixels (like the Netscape Now button)
    Square ads: 120 x 120 pixels

    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I've laid PSP to rest and delegated design, so these are just suggestions that I think would be nice. These are more general, but with an eye on a logo since I like logos, particularly clever and humourous ones. A good name is handy, and we have one of those, but a good logo can really help with marketing too. If someone can come up with something clever, maybe Bard can incorporate it into the site.

    Some kind of plug out of a socket. A phone plug out of its socket maybe?

    Something signifying slowness. A tortoise springs to mind, but that's not right. Maybe a crawling download dialog. Although if you made the tortoise kind of cutesy but mischevious, it might work.

    That's all for now, I'll think about it more this evening.

    adam


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    2nd one... half size this time... (234x60)

    DSLAnim.gif

    19Kb, though... I'd like to be able to cut that down...

    BTW... feel free, anyone, to use either of these two images on a web page, linking to www.irelandoffline.com smile.gif

    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Pablo


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
    DSLAnim.gif
    [/B]</font>
    emmmm that banner was produced by earthlink

    http://www.earthlink.net/

    who i have mailed concerning this .


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭ando


    eh, is it alright if I try making a banner with Macromedia Flash ?

    www.EFtraining.com

    http://www.thealexandriaclan.barrysworld.net


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pablo:

    emmmm that banner was produced by earthlink

    http://www.earthlink.net/

    who i have mailed concerning this .
    </font>

    FFS!!!

    No! That banner was NOT made by Earthlink, it was made by ME. It was inspired by a banner made by Earthlink. Re: mailing them - What the heck are you trying to cause trouble for ???
    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

    [This message has been edited by Bard (edited 02-06-2001).]


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ando:
    eh, is it alright if I try making a banner with Macromedia Flash ?

    </font>

    That would be fine, ando - and very good of you. It would be best if, when you give it to us, that you give us the .fla file and not the .swf file - allowing us to edit it if necessary.

    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,975 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Well,
    It ain't exactly fabulous, but it seems to tie in well enough with the look of the site.
    If its wooooefully bad let me know and I'll stop- if not I'll have a stab at something a bit more original!!

    Leo

    Ahem, hehe if I gave u a link that might be good!
    http://www.geocities.com/leo980/index.html

    [This message has been edited by eo980 (edited 02-06-2001).]


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Pablo


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
    FFS!!!

    No! That banner was NOT made by Earthlink, it was made by ME. It was inspired by a banner made by Earthlink. Re: mailing them - What the heck are you trying to cause trouble for ???
    </font>
    copyright


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Kix


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pablo:
    copyright</font>

    You tragic, attention-seeking muppet. Perhaps you should think twice before pi$$ing off one of the best posters to these boards - someone who has plenty of respect from his peers and somone who is trying to so something constructive about the state of the internet in Ireland.

    Oh, by the way, had a look at your website too. If you're actually hoping to use it to find employment then you should hire someone to rewrite it. You can't string a coherent sentence together for toffee.


    You just show yourself up as the dumb kid you really are.


    [This message has been edited by Kix (edited 02-06-2001).]


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    John- I don't recall who pointed it out- perhaps it was pointed out more as a 'useful thing to have' than as an 'effective marketing tool'... most of know how low the clickthru rate on those blasted things are... wink.gif

    Might I just suggest that you slow down the animated one a bit? At that speed it's a little difficult to read.

    Thanks!



    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Pablo


    • Kix

    • o_donnel_abu

    from the list of rules when you register :
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this BB.
    </font>

    also attack the post and not the poster.



  • Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭Funkygreendogs


    ahahahaha wwaannn pablo!
    how do i post the banner in a .gif ?
    heres the url anyways:
    www.geocities.com/galway_irc/animation3.gif

    funkygreendogs [jason]


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭corkie


    I just a few more up.
    Nothing to write home about
    but if you like any of them
    I could spend a bit more time
    on them and clean them up!

    They might also give
    someelse more Ideas?

    Best regards,
    Corkie
    ioffla4may3.gif

    ioffla4may.gif

    Click above to see some more!

    [New banners added above]



    [This message has been edited by corkie (edited 04-06-2001).]


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭ando


    ello again !!

    This is the banner I made with Macromedia Flash. Tell me if you want the .Fla or .Swf !!

    I did it while I was watching the irish match, so excuse the lack of impressive graphics !! biggrin.gif hehee

    http://open.cni.ie/students/panderson/iol/irelandofflinelogo.htm

    www.EFtraining.com

    http://www.thealexandriaclan.barrysworld.net


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭o_donnel_abu


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pablo:
    • Kix

    • o_donnel_abu
    also attack the post and not the poster.

    [/B]</font>

    I only attack posters when they are daft, interfering 'busybodies' doing things like reporting someone to an organisation, claiming that they are infringing copyrights, without:

    a) speaking to the person involved first
    b) making sure of their facts.

    Sorry if I hurt your feelings - NOT smile.gif


    [This message has been edited by o_donnel_abu (edited 02-06-2001).]


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ando:
    ello again !!

    This is the banner I made with Macromedia Flash. Tell me if you want the .Fla or .Swf !!

    I did it while I was watching the irish match, so excuse the lack of impressive graphics !! biggrin.gif hehee

    http://open.cni.ie/students/panderson/iol/irelandofflinelogo.htm

    </font>

    Dunno about the wording... "THEN MOVE TO ENGLAND!" ???

    .fla is best, btw...

    Cheers,



    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Banners & the HTML code for them are now available from the IrelandOffline web site [ here ].

    I'll still accept submissions for more banners.


    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭Monty - the one and only


    Pablo there is such a thing as the artists copyright(yes, even on copyrighted material)....As long as no profit is made from it....


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    pablo = muppet.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    eo980's banner... (THANKS!): eire_offline_banner.gif

    ===

    And...

    Wow... cheers, Kix wink.gif Sentiment appreciated.

    Bard
    Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

    [This message has been edited by Bard (edited 02-06-2001).]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭o_donnel_abu


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kix (in reply to copyrightposting by Pablo):
    Oh, by the way, had a look at your website too. If you're actually hoping to use it to find employment then you should hire someone to rewrite it. </font>

    I looked at it too, and have to agree smile.gif

    Prat!

    [This message has been edited by o_donnel_abu (edited 02-06-2001).]


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭Monty - the one and only


    Hmm slagging off 2 respected moderators is really a great way of getting yourself on the road to be banned...

    It is not a fairytail. It is truth

    www.scifi-meshes.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Dave


    Christ how does a request for a wee bit of help turn into flame, I fail to see muppet logic, i'll try and do a banner in flash for ye during the week if ye want.

    -Dave


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭o_donnel_abu


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Monty - the one and only:
    Hmm slagging off 2 respected moderators is really a great way of getting yourself on the road to be banned...

    </font>


    Nah, leave him alone, pathetic souls like him serve useful purpose of reminding rest of us how lucky we are to be gifted with a reasonable level of intelligence smile.gif



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by o_donnel_abu:

    Nah, leave him alone, pathetic souls like him serve useful purpose of reminding rest of us how lucky we are to be gifted with a reasonable level of intelligence smile.gif

    </font>

    Yes I agree. Especially after seeing his website.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Dave


    /me allows himself a moment to rofl

    biggrin.gif

    -Dave


  • Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Winning Hand


    Teehee. You would think that if he was making the website himself he would try a better picture of himself. He looks like hes just seen a woman on the web and hes not sure if he likes it. 6ft my hole

    I like my coffee like I like my women.......
    In a plastic cup

    I like my coffee like I like my women......
    covered in bees


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    LOL, pld Hobbes biggrin.gif

    Not the smartest thing to be doing, abusing people on the boards when your profile links to a site with your real name and address on it smile.gif

    - Munch


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭o_donnel_abu


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hobbes:
    Yes I agree. Especially after seeing his website.</font>

    Class !!!!

    smile.gif


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